Address to Seanad Éireann by Members of the European Parliament
Seanad Éireann — 2021-11-02
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Garret Ahearn (FG), Administrative Panel

I welcome the four MEPs, and particularly my colleague, Ms Fitzgerald. The EU recovery and resilience facility, RRF, is a huge funding programme all about building back better. It took a serious amount of negotiation. Everyone will recall the five days of the European Council summit back in July 2020 where EU leaders agreed on its broad outlines and a seven-year EU budget. How was the Parliament involved and what level of parliamentary scrutiny will there be over the RRF in future?

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Sitting date: 2021-11-02